Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
you got it exactly right, lesser on top and lesser on bottom. Picture is of them breeding last year. I don't even own a butter lol.

Can this debate end now? Besides a few of you who misunderstood the intent of this. This pretty much proves, the believers of them being different morphs can't tell for themselves, so why do you still want to debate it? The whole yellowish/silver thing may of been true for the original founding animals, but that becomes farther and farther form the truth as we continue to out cross.

The variation of them comes not from the lesser/butter gene, but the other multi-thousand of possible genes that we can't clearly label but are still there changing how the snake looks. Same goes for every other morph and even normals. This is like debating if bhb pastels are different morphs than lemon pastels.

anything left to clear up?
I've never really viewed them as discrete morphs, but the only aspect that I still need clarification on (due to my relative inexperience) is whether anyone has successfully produced a 'butter daddy' that resembles the original platty daddy. I know the 'het platty' gene is difficult, but theoretically couldn't someone produce a platinum (not a lesser) by pairing a butter and a het platty? if not, then they are still distinct morphs. if this question has been asked and answered already, I have missed it, but that's the only possible distinction I would consider relevant.

otherwise, it's just a matter of selecting the best quality lesser. as rabernet has shown a few times recently.